Established in 1969, The Ross Farm Museum is located on highway #12 in New Ross, Nova Scotia, just 15 minutes from the Lighthouse route, or 25 minutes from the Gloosecap trail. Our Museum is a living, working, farm museum depicting 150 years of agriculture in Nova Scotia. We are a single family upland farm on land originally granted to Captain William Ross. Ross Farm Museum is still being farmed with Oxen, the way it was in the late 1800s. In Rosebank Cottage, the original home of the Ross family built in 1817, you may see food being prepared over an open fire, straw hats being woven, wool or flax being spun, butter being churned, or many other skills being demonstrated that were daily chores for our forefathers, but are now almost lost.
We have a working blacksmith shop where hardware is produced for the farm and we shoe approximately 30 teams of oxen each year. There is also a working stave mill and cooperage producing barrels, the original workshop where products such as butter churns, spoons, buckets and even snow shoes are made.
During your visit to Nova Scotia, Ross Farm Museum is definitely worth taking the time to visit. It will provide you an opportunity to experience ”An Adventure in Rural Living”.
To depict the authentic experience of a typical 19th and early 20th century working upland family farm in Nova Scotia and develop awareness of the relevance of traditional agricultural practices to contemporary life. Ross Farm Museum is a window into the past of Nova Scotia’s rich agricultural history with many things to see and do that the whole family will enjoy.
The mission of the Ross Farm District Museum Society is to depict the authentic experience of a typical 19th and early 20th century working upland family farm in Nova Scotia and develop awareness of the relevance of traditional agricultural practices to contemporary life.
The Nova Scotia Museum is committed, with its partners, to providing the highest standards of animal care at all our sites with live animals. Over the past several months we have been working with the staff of the New Ross and District Museum Society to address animal care concerns at Ross Farm.
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Have a question for our staff? Contact us at [email protected].
Please note that due to the volume of enquiries we receive, we cannot always provide an immediate response to your question. We will aim to respond to your enquiry within 7-10 business days.
Ross Farm Museum
4568 Route 12
RR#2 New Ross N.S.
B0J 2M0
Phone: 902-689-2210
Toll Free: 1-877-689-2210
Staff | |
| Marc Tassé - [email protected] | Executive Director |
| Rhea Hamlin - [email protected] | Business Coordinator |
| Tena Elliott – [email protected] | School Bookings |
| Kim Lenihan - [email protected] | Finance Officer |
| Jaimee Barkhouse | Manager, Hearth Room Café |